# RFC: Toward supporting distribution of VTK based modules on PyPI

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/rfc-toward-supporting-distribution-of-vtk-based-modules-on-pypi/15174>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [December 21, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/rfc-toward-supporting-distribution-of-vtk-based-modules-on-pypi/15174 "2020-12-21T20:15:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/rfc-toward-supporting-distribution-of-vtk-based-modules-on-pypi/15174/1 "2020-12-21T20:15:18Z")

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At Kitware, we would like to support the ability to package and distribute any VTK based modules on PyPI (Python Package Index).

If you would like to see this happen, read and “heart” the following discourse post, and do not hesitate to comment:

> **[RFC: Toward supporting distribution of VTK based modules on PyPI](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/rfc-toward-supporting-distribution-of-vtk-based-modules-on-pypi/4873)**
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> In a nutshell, we would like to officially support the ability to package and distribute any VTK based modules on PyPI (Python Package Index). This means we would maintain a template to allow anyone in the community to do so. There is of course a...

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/rfc-toward-supporting-distribution-of-vtk-based-modules-on-pypi/15174/2 "2020-12-22T05:30:14Z")

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Liking that post will help Kitware prioritize enhancement of VTK so that VTK-based algorithms can be easily installed using pip (via the Python Package Index). This would help us both with Slicer packaging and distributing parts of Slicer as pip-installable packages.